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‘I am twenty-eight,’ Hugo said. ‘Which is a perfectly good age to get married. And besides, I have been away fighting.’

‘So who are you going to marry?’

‘I haven’t met her yet.’ It felt important to state that.

‘How will you find the right one then?’ Nathan asked. ‘A wife has to be able to cook, doesn’t she?’

‘No, not always. I employ a cook. I will go to London after Christmas and attend parties and balls and hope to find the right lady.’ That was the plan. It had seemed perfectly sensible. It was perfectly sensible. It was how a gentleman found a wife.

‘How will you know? Will she be pretty?’

‘Perhaps she will.’ Blonde, blue eyes, tall. Cool. ‘How do you know when you like someone?’

‘But it’s more than liking, isn’t it?’ Joseph chimed in. ‘You’ve got to live with her for ever and ever and have babies and love each other.’ His voice trailed away. ‘Until one of you dies.’

‘We will have to like each other,’ Hugo said briskly. ‘Love could grow afterwards. And she will come from the same sort of background as me so she will know how to look after quite a lot of servants and tenants and a big house.’ He was not sure who he was trying to convince, himself or the boys. Or perhaps